Basic Facts Boxes

L.I: To remember basic maths facts

Today I did the speed demon challenge on division. Speed demon is about answering all of the questions quickly. It took me 5 minutes and 30 seconds to answer all 90 division questions. My results were 78 out of 90. I found this challenge easy because the questions were time tables I knew in reverse.

SSR Selfie | Sound

L.I: To summarise or retell a text

I read a book called Sound. The book is about how sound works and what sound does.

Three main things I learnt in the book was about sound waves. I learnt that the high point of a sound wave is called a crest or a peak. While I was reading this book I learnt new words like troughs. Troughs represents the area in a sound wave where the particles are farthest apart.

I enjoyed reading this book and it was very educational. I think this could help other people learn about sound.

Place Value

Ancient Egyptian numbers are a form of language. The numbers are written in objects. Each image/object represents a place value like the short ropes.

The short ropes represents the ones, long ropes represents the tens, coils represents the hundreds, the flower represents the thousands, A finger represent ten thousands, a frog represents hundred thousands and a god praising to the sun represents million.

Example: This is a picture of the flower that represents the thousands

To make a number using Ancient Egyptian, Egyptians used objects in specific order to make the numbers. For example writing 5,435, in the Ancient Egyptian numbers uses 5 flowers, 4 coils, 3 long ropes, and 5 short ropes. 

Properties of sound

Sound is created by vibrating things. Sound has three properties.

One property is that sound can travel in all directions. This is proven by standing 1 meter away from the source in all directions and making a sound.

The second property is that sound can travel around corners. This is proven by standing behind a wall and making a sound.

The third property is that sound dissipates as it travels. This is proven by standing far away from the recorder and comparing the level of sound from a near meter and a far meter.

L.I: To observe the properties of sound

Masking art

L.I: To create geometric art by using masking technique

For our art session we did Masking art. Masking Art is basically using tape to section off parts of a whole and colour the parts in. Then you rip the tape slowly and all you have left is the coloured in parts. Make sure to not press down on the tape hard or else it will peal the paper with it.

First I made my frame. Second I section off parts of the paper. Those section are the sections I have to colour in. Then I used the pastels to colour in the sections. After colouring all the sections I slowly ripped off the tape.

I found this activity really fun and I think I can make more of these type of art.

These are the results:

Homonyms, Homophones and Homograph

L.I: To investigate Homophones

Homophones sound the same, spelt different and mean different. Homonyms sound the same, spelt the same but has different meanings. Homographs sound different, same spelling but different meanings.

Example: Eye went to the library to read a book called bright but the library was close.

Eye is a homophone because it has a different spelling and meaning but it sounds the same.  Bright is a homonym because its sound and spelt the same but it has a different meaning.  Close is a homograph because its spelt the same but it has a different meaning and pronunciation.

Make sure to look for these errors, so sentences can make sense and words doesn't have the wrong meaning.

South Pacific beats

L.I: To read, understand and recall the article (South Pacific Beat)

South Pacific Beats is about a designer called Rachael Hall who made an instrument called the Pato.

The Pato is a modern version of the Tongan instrument called the lali.

She used a lathe to shape the body of the Pato and a milling machine to carve out the channel.

She made the Pato so she can bring the South Pacific community to the digital age.

I took a test for my understanding of the Pato and I got 9 out of 27

Masking Art

In our art session we learnt how to do mask art digitally.

First I created sections with the bars I had. Then I used the Polyline tool to trace out the sections. After that I put the section I traced out underneath the mask and coloured the section in. I used custom colours to colour in my sections. Finally I made the borders black.

Basic facts

L.I: To remember basic maths facts

I did the speed demon. I did the times tables. I got 94 correct and 6 wrong. It took me 4 minutes and 26 seconds. Times tables was a little bit hard but I was able to get most of the questions correct. Next time I will try and do division to challenge myself.

SSR Selfie | Gravity

L.I: To summarise and retell a text

I read a book called Gravity. In the book it talks about how gravity work and what gravity does.

I learnt the reason why objects fall is because of friction. Friction is a source between two surfaces that are sliding or trying to slide across from each other. I also learnt about Mass vs Distance. Distance is the space between two objects and mass measures how much matter an object hold.

I find this book very educational and (I think) it could help other people learn about gravity.

Scanning

I scanned a book called South Pacific Beats for three innovations that Racheal Hall used for the Pato.

To find those three innovations I thought of 3 keywords that will help me find the information I was looking for. I checked for the contents page but there was none, so I scanned each page to find the heading with my keywords.  Once I found the page I scanned the body to find the keywords I decided on.

After I found the keywords I read the sentence for information on 3 innovations.

L.I: To scan the article (South Pacific beat) for specific information.

Light and Sound

For our inquiry lesson we learnt about light and sound. Light is a source that will make a dark object brighter. Sound is something that you can hear. I went to get images that relate to light or sound or both. Then I connect the images to either the light or the sound category or both categories. Finally I defined how light and sound works.

L.I: to demonstrate prior knowledge

Sentences

L.I: To write a complete and correct sentence

A punctuation is a symbol that is used at the end or in a sentence.

A homophone is a word that sounds the same like another word but it has a different meaning.

A capital letter is used in a beginning or a sentence or a name of a person or place. 

A FANBOY is a type of conjunction that consist of For, And, Nor, But, Or and Yet.

Example: "i went two the dairy to get some flour, he could bake a cake?"
The "I" is not capitalise, "two" is the wrong homophone and the question mark is used wrong.

Make sure to look for these type of errors so people can understand and the sentences make sense.

Number Sentence

Maths problems are written in a specific order.

The first number is the amount a person has.

The second number is the amount a person adds or subtracts.

The number order cannot change because the Maths problem will then have a different meaning.

L.I: To learn the order of subtraction

Prior Knowledge

L.I: To demonstrate prior knowledge on a topic

Prior knowledge is recalling any information that known by yourself.


It can be used before reading, while reading, and sometimes even after finishing reading a book.

Prior knowledge is a good strategy because it helps with remembering because when someone ask a question, it can be answered already because its already known by yourself.

Number bonds

L.I: To learn number bonds to twenty

Number bonds are 2 numbers that can create a tidy number.

These are the different number bonds up to 20.
1 & 19
2 & 18
3 & 17
4 & 16
5 & 15
6 & 14
7 & 13
8 & 12
9 & 11
10 & 10
11 & 9
12 & 8
13 & 7
14 & 6
15 & 5
16 & 4
17 & 3
18 & 2
19 & 1
20 & 0

Number bonds are good for knowledge because when someone asks a maths question about a number bonds it can be answered easily.